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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [8/18] BKL-removal: Remove BKL from remote_llseek
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 13:38:57 +0000
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> Also worse really fixing it would be a major change to the VFS 
> because of the way ->read/write are defined :/

I don't see a problem there. ->read and ->write update the passed pointer
which is not the real f_pos anyway. Just the copies need fixing.

Alan